St. Joseph from a ‘Pilgrimage ’ with Prayers Rack
This image comes from a devotional print that can be broadly categorized as a Pilgrimage Card. Typically, pilgrimage cards depicted a saint or saints in the sky beneath heavenly rays of light and hovering in the clouds above their titular church. Such devotional prints were given out to the titular church’s visitors, that is, its pilgrims, as souvenirs. Here, St. Joseph hovers not over ‘A’ church but over ‘THE’ Church as its patron. Writ larger than usual on contemporary pilgrimage cards, the figure of St. Joseph is a dominating presence garbed in a robe of emerald green with gold trim and a white mantle lined in shades of pink and rose. He raises his right hand in a blessing gesture and holds a spray of white lilies symbolizing purity in his left. Directly below him appear emblems of the papacy– the three-tiered crown or tiara of the Pope and the two crossed “keys to the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew :)—superimposed on the planet earth. To the left, St. Michael the Archangel skewers the devil with a cross-tipped lance; to the right, vanquished demons appear in the guise of dismembered serpents. + The original devotional print was issued c. to promulgate Pope Leo XIII’s “Prayer to St. Joseph”, today the official prayer of The Year of St. Joseph. Proclaimed by Pope Francis, The Year celebrates the th Anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of The Church. It should be noted that Pope Leo also authored a very famous short “Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel”. Both of Pope Leo’s prayers appear on the back of this rack card. + The Year of St. Joseph: 8 December December 8; Principal Feast of St. Joseph: March ; Feast of St. Joseph the Worker: May 1 + Image Source (B ): Antique image of Saint Joseph, Protecteur de l’Eglise Universelle [Saint Joseph, Protector of the Universal Church], originally published in chromolithography by Bonamy Pont. Edit., Poitiers, France, No. , from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera.
St. Michael the Archangel (RLS 12) Rack
Customize the front for your church, school, or organization and add your text to the blank back of this versatile hand-out. + Image Credit (RLS ): Antique image in chromolithography with gilt accents of St. Michael the Archangel from Red Letter Saints: Being a Series of Biographies of those Saints for which Proper Collects, Epistles and Gospels are appointed in the Book of Common Prayer. Printed by E. Kaufmann, Lahr, Baden, Germany, for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / (London, ), p. . From the designer’s private library. + Feast: September + Text is in dark red-brown (#) which matches the figure’s outline.
St. Joseph, Protector of the Church, with Litany Rack
Add your text to the back of this versatile blank hand-out. + Here, a mature, gray-haired St. Joseph stands atop a globe in front of a red wall hanging with golden yellow trim and tassels. The tapestry is patterned with equal-armed crosses enclosed in rotated squares. How it is hung defies logical explanation because the background consists of an infinitely deep aqua-blue sky bespattered with stars. + St. Joseph is richly garbed in strong colors. His robe is red; his mantle, green with a dark aqua lining and golden yellow borders. He holds a spray of white lilies symbolizing purity in his right hand and an L-shaped brown wooden carpenter’s rule indicative of his profession in his left. + Beneath St. Joseph’s sandaled feet are a small dragon, a crown, a scroll, and a globe inscribed with the names of the populated continents—Asia, Australia, (North and South) America, Africa, and Europe. The dragon and the scroll represent threats to the Church. The dragon signifies Satan; the scroll, heresies by being a précis of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, a document articulating th-century philosophical and political positions hostile to Catholicism. The scroll reads: Non serviam (“I will not serve”) / Atheismus (Atheism) / Odium Ecclesiae (Hatred of the Church) ~ S. Pontifice (The Pope) ~ Episcopi (Bishops) ~ Presbyteri (Priests) / Liberalism. The phrase “Non serviam”, that is, “I will not serve”, is attributed to Satan who rejected God and was banished from heaven. Atheism, Anticlericalism, and Liberalism are self-explanatory and were movements that shaped Pius IX’s policies, especially regarding the unification of Italy and its rise as a modern nation-state. The towering figure of St. Joseph stamps out heresy and tramples underfoot Satan’s power over the world by crushing the dragon beneath his feet toppling the crown from the dragon’s head. + A much more elaborate, near-contemporary variant was issued as a black and white lithograph. (Compare our DT .) Like the black-and-white litho, this chromo- or color lithograph was published to promulgate Pope Leo XIII’s “Prayer to St. Joseph” of . + Principal Feast of St. Joseph: March ; Feast of St. Joseph the Worker: May 1 + Image Credit (VVP ): Antique chromolithograph of Saint Joseph, Protector of the Church, Pray For Us [H. Jozef, beschermer der H. Kerk, ] originally published by K[arel] v[an] d[er] Vyvere-Petyt, Bruges, Belgium, c. , from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera.
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